, 1887-08-18

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Northern Virginia. JULIAN s. CARR
liis people were not wealthy, and all
shey mad was gone when the war ended.
During his service Mr. Carr never
missed duty, and though his merits
won him favorable mention, he refused all
promotion He left the service and returned
TO the university. After session there he
began business as a merchant in small way
In 1858 lie went to Little Rock, Ark, and
engaged in business there. In 1870 he pur-
chased third interest in a we'll known to-
oacco factory at Durham. That factory, like
the town of Durham itself, was destined to
become known wherever the weed men call
tobacco is smoked The man and the busi-
ness had met, and from the very day Mr..
Carr took charge he was recognized as the
brains of the firm, and was given entire
charge of its mercantile and financial depart
ments In that day the business was small,
whereas now it amounts to millions of dollars
yearly, and when then there were fifty ON.
Ployes there are now over 900 But whether
the business was great or small, Mr. Carr
always applied himself to what was in hand,
and has seen the little railway station of
Durham grow to the noted manufactur ing
town Of 1880 people and become the best
known place in North Carolina or in the en-
tire south, with its particular product, to-
bacco, in all mems mouths 1t is said that
he holds more positions of business trust than
any man in the state. He Is president of a
tobacco company which has a capital of
81 100000; president Of the Durham Electric
Light company and Of the Durham and Rox.
boro railway; vice president Of the Durham
cotton mills and Of the Durham bobbin and
shuttle mills. He has branches Of his tobacco
a in NIL thn stsn .,-e elx.,
In all the great cities Of the world, and his
sign, the durham Bull" adorns fences and
billboards in all Canada, the United States
and Mexico. Mr.. Carrs wealth is estimated
at over half n million, yet he is as quiet and
unobtrusive as he was when poor private in
Lees army. .*A
Other horors than those gathered i'm the
business field have fallen to the lot of Mr.
Carr. He is a member of the board of trustees
of the state university and on it's executive
committee. His money and influence have
done much toward rehabilitatng that hon
ored old institution, which was so nearly
wrecked by the war. He is a member of the
Methodist church and Is president of the
trustees of Trinity, the leading college of
that denomination in the south. He has given
that college large sums, and only month
ago gave SO, 600 to its endowment fund. He
is president of the board of managers of
Greensboro Female college, another import.
ant Methodist institution. He is member
of the board of trustees of the female semi.
nary at Durham, and has given large sums
thereto he has been equally generous to
the Durham graded school with its CSC pu.
pills. All these institutions are for whites,
but Mr. Carr, with true public spirit, does
not confhe his good work to that race alone
for his charities to the colored people have
won for him the highest regard of the latter
in all parts of the state. He is a member of
the board of trustees of the colored normal
and mechanical college at kittrell.
Mr.. Carr is member of the board OF
directors of the Oxford Orphan asylum, a
charity which is the nobest in the state,
where POO orphans are maintained and edu-
Gated, mainly by the MSsons of North
Carolina. To this asylum he has been a
liberal giver, again and again. No man in
the state Is more closely connected with or so
liberal or so prominent in church and Sunday
school work in the Methodist denomination.
In 1873 he attended the Robert Raikes Sun
day school convention, Mt London, England,
as the delegate from North Carolina, and in
Methodists of the world. at the same pIace
Since that time he has been n delegate 10 the
En;scor,aI nhu,.ci and do,o'a. t .i,o Wetii
AZ. l'. ~. "nut ueies"', " ,ne "epho
uise centenary Ut baltimore. lie has given
targe sums Tor the erection OF one OF
the finest Methodist churches in the state, at
Durham, and in May presented the Metho-
lutte gift. This church has lust been de3icate1
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